Luciano Floridi

51.9k total citations · 21 hit papers
522 papers, 23.0k citations indexed

About

Luciano Floridi is a scholar working on Safety Research, Artificial Intelligence and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Luciano Floridi has authored 522 papers receiving a total of 23.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 166 papers in Safety Research, 135 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 113 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Luciano Floridi's work include Ethics and Social Impacts of AI (162 papers), Computability, Logic, AI Algorithms (56 papers) and Privacy, Security, and Data Protection (46 papers). Luciano Floridi is often cited by papers focused on Ethics and Social Impacts of AI (162 papers), Computability, Logic, AI Algorithms (56 papers) and Privacy, Security, and Data Protection (46 papers). Luciano Floridi collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Italy and United States. Luciano Floridi's co-authors include Mariarosaria Taddeo, Brent Mittelstadt, Josh Cowls, Sandra Wachter, Jessica Morley, J. W. Sanders, Patrick Allo, Jakob Mökander, Christopher Burr and Andreas Tsamados and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Luciano Floridi

475 papers receiving 21.0k citations

Hit Papers

AI4People—An Ethical Fram... 2004 2026 2011 2018 2018 2016 2020 2018 2014 400 800 1.2k
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. AI4People—An Ethical Framework for a Good AI Society: Opportunities, Risks, Principles, and Recommendations
    2018 1.4k citations Luciano Floridi, Josh Cowls et al. Minds and Machines profile →
  2. The ethics of algorithms: Mapping the debate
    2016 1.3k citations Brent Mittelstadt, Patrick Allo et al. profile →
  3. GPT-3: Its Nature, Scope, Limits, and Consequences
    2020 1.2k citations Luciano Floridi et al. Minds and Machines profile →
  4. The grand challenges of Science Robotics
    2018 845 citations Guang‐Zhong Yang, Jim Bellingham et al. Science Robotics profile →
  5. The Fourth Revolution: How the infosphere is reshaping human reality
    2014 513 citations Luciano Floridi profile →
  6. On the Morality of Artificial Agents
    2004 512 citations Luciano Floridi et al. Minds and Machines profile →
  7. Why a Right to Explanation of Automated Decision-Making Does Not Exist in the General Data Protection Regulation
    2017 447 citations Sandra Wachter, Brent Mittelstadt et al. profile →
  8. The ethics of AI in health care: A mapping review
    2020 444 citations Jessica Morley, Caio C. Vieira Machado et al. profile →
  9. A Unified Framework of Five Principles for AI in Society
    2019 416 citations Luciano Floridi, Josh Cowls profile →
  10. The Philosophy of Information
    2011 408 citations Luciano Floridi profile →
  11. From What to How: An Initial Review of Publicly Available AI Ethics Tools, Methods and Research to Translate Principles into Practices
    2019 389 citations Jessica Morley, Luciano Floridi et al. Science and Engineering Ethics profile →
  12. The Ethics of Big Data: Current and Foreseeable Issues in Biomedical Contexts
    2015 387 citations Brent Mittelstadt, Luciano Floridi Science and Engineering Ethics profile →
  13. How AI can be a force for good
    2018 336 citations Mariarosaria Taddeo, Luciano Floridi profile →
  14. What is data ethics?
    2016 255 citations Luciano Floridi, Mariarosaria Taddeo profile →
  15. Translating Principles into Practices of Digital Ethics: Five Risks of Being Unethical
    2019 238 citations Luciano Floridi Philosophy & Technology profile →
  16. The Chinese approach to artificial intelligence: an analysis of policy, ethics, and regulation
    2020 236 citations Huw Roberts, Josh Cowls et al. AI & Society profile →
  17. Recommender systems and their ethical challenges
    2020 218 citations Mariarosaria Taddeo, Luciano Floridi et al. AI & Society profile →
  18. AI as Agency Without Intelligence: on ChatGPT, Large Language Models, and Other Generative Models
    2023 148 citations Luciano Floridi Philosophy & Technology profile →
  19. Accountability in artificial intelligence: what it is and how it works
    2023 130 citations Claudio Novelli, Mariarosaria Taddeo et al. AI & Society profile →
  20. The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
    2023 91 citations Luciano Floridi profile →
  21. Taking AI risks seriously: a new assessment model for the AI Act
    2023 49 citations Claudio Novelli, Federico Casolari et al. AI & Society profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Luciano Floridi United Kingdom 74 7.7k 6.4k 4.9k 3.5k 3.1k 522 23.0k
Mariarosaria Taddeo United Kingdom 38 2.8k 0.4× 2.1k 0.3× 1.4k 0.3× 1.0k 0.3× 1.2k 0.4× 156 7.7k
Gerd Gigerenzer Germany 86 3.6k 0.5× 4.8k 0.7× 6.1k 1.2× 5.0k 1.4× 502 0.2× 397 35.1k
Kate Crawford United States 37 2.3k 0.3× 1.6k 0.3× 3.3k 0.7× 598 0.2× 1.1k 0.4× 109 9.5k
Effy Vayena Switzerland 37 2.8k 0.4× 2.3k 0.4× 1.2k 0.3× 938 0.3× 1.1k 0.4× 127 8.9k
Alex Pentland United States 95 853 0.1× 8.1k 1.3× 4.2k 0.9× 3.1k 0.9× 3.8k 1.2× 552 57.1k
Herbert A. Simon United States 125 4.4k 0.6× 14.4k 2.2× 11.9k 2.4× 8.1k 2.3× 4.0k 1.3× 458 93.6k
David G. Rand United States 76 6.6k 0.9× 3.0k 0.5× 18.1k 3.7× 4.3k 1.2× 1.0k 0.3× 302 25.4k
Ben Shneiderman United States 91 809 0.1× 7.7k 1.2× 5.0k 1.0× 1.8k 0.5× 6.2k 2.0× 517 32.7k
Brian A. Nosek United States 75 1.8k 0.2× 1.5k 0.2× 18.0k 3.7× 9.0k 2.6× 1.1k 0.4× 192 40.1k
L. S. Vygotsky United States 23 1.4k 0.2× 1.6k 0.2× 6.1k 1.2× 2.8k 0.8× 3.1k 1.0× 39 50.2k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Luciano Floridi

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Luciano Floridi

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Luciano Floridi. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Luciano Floridi based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Luciano Floridi. Luciano Floridi is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Morley, Jessica, et al.. (2025). The Effects of AI on Street-Level Bureaucracy: A Scoping Review. 4(1). 1 indexed citations
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Novelli, Claudio, Federico Casolari, Philipp Hacker, Giorgio Alfredo Spedicato, & Luciano Floridi. (2024). Generative AI in EU law: Liability, privacy, intellectual property, and cybersecurity. Computer law & security review. 55. 106066–106066. 16 indexed citations
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Thomas, Chris D., Huw Roberts, Jakob Mökander, et al.. (2024). The Case for a Broader Approach to AI Assurance: Addressing 'Hidden' Harms in the Development of Artificial Intelligence. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2 indexed citations
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Roberts, Huw, Emmie Hine, Mariarosaria Taddeo, & Luciano Floridi. (2024). Global AI governance: barriers and pathways forward. International Affairs. 100(3). 1275–1286. 23 indexed citations
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Floridi, Luciano. (2023). On Good and Evil, the Mistaken Idea That Technology Is Ever Neutral, and the Importance of the Double-Charge Thesis. Philosophy & Technology. 36(3). 7 indexed citations
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Floridi, Luciano. (2023). Machine Unlearning: Its Nature, Scope, and Importance for a “Delete Culture”. Philosophy & Technology. 36(2). 6 indexed citations
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Floridi, Luciano. (2023). AI as Agency Without Intelligence: on ChatGPT, Large Language Models, and Other Generative Models. Philosophy & Technology. 36(1). 148 indexed citations breakdown →
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Taddeo, Mariarosaria, et al.. (2023). Open source intelligence and AI: a systematic review of the GELSI literature. AI & Society. 39(4). 1827–1842. 8 indexed citations
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Casolari, Federico, et al.. (2023). How to Improve Smart Contracts in the European Union Data Act. 2(1). 5 indexed citations
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Tsamados, Andreas, Luciano Floridi, & Mariarosaria Taddeo. (2023). The Cybersecurity Crisis of Artificial Intelligence: Unrestrained Adoption and Natural Language-Based Attacks. SSRN Electronic Journal. 6 indexed citations
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Tagliabue, Jacopo, et al.. (2023). The Ethics of Online Controlled Experiments (A/B Testing). Minds and Machines. 33(4). 667–693. 5 indexed citations
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Morley, Jessica, Caio C. Vieira Machado, Christopher Burr, et al.. (2021). The Ethics of AI in Health Care: A Mapping Review. 313–346. 13 indexed citations
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Burr, Christopher, Mariarosaria Taddeo, & Luciano Floridi. (2020). The Ethics of Digital Well-Being: A Thematic Review. Science and Engineering Ethics. 26(4). 2313–2343. 162 indexed citations
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Burr, Christopher & Luciano Floridi. (2020). Ethics of digital well-being: a multidisciplinary approach. PhilPapers (PhilPapers Foundation). 14 indexed citations
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Ghezzi, Pietro, Peter Bannister, Michel Goldman, et al.. (2020). Online Information of Vaccines: Information Quality, Not Only Privacy, Is an Ethical Responsibility of Search Engines. Frontiers in Medicine. 7. 400–400. 15 indexed citations
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Yang, Guang‐Zhong, Jim Bellingham, Pierre E. Dupont, et al.. (2018). The grand challenges of Science Robotics. Science Robotics. 3(14). 845 indexed citations breakdown →
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Ghezzi, Pietro, Luciano Floridi, Diana Boraschi, et al.. (2017). Oxidative Stress and Inflammation Induced by Environmental and Psychological Stressors: A Biomarker Perspective. Antioxidants and Redox Signaling. 28(9). 852–872. 68 indexed citations
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Mittelstadt, Brent, Patrick Allo, Mariarosaria Taddeo, Sandra Wachter, & Luciano Floridi. (2016). The Ethics of Algorithms: Mapping the Debate. SSRN Electronic Journal. 3 indexed citations
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Greco, Gian Maria, et al.. (2005). The philosophy of information: a methodological point of view. 20(7). 563–570. 1 indexed citations
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Floridi, Luciano. (1994). Scepticism and the search for knowledge: a peirceish answer to a Kantian doubt. PhilPapers (PhilPapers Foundation). 30(3). 543–573. 3 indexed citations

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